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TO ALL PERSONS 'IO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, ALANSON SLUGH'LE, of Middletown, in the county 'of' Orange, and State of New y York, have inventedv an Improved Cheese Vat, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top View of my'invention, showing agitator.- i

Figure 2*, a top View, with milk vat removed from the heating apparatus, showing corrugated heat disseminator.

Figure 3, a top view with disseminator removed.

Figure 4, alongitudinal section of the several parts; Aand Figure 5, a transverse section of same. o

i lhe nature of my'invention consists in constructing a cheese vat so that the heat intended-to ceagulate or cui-elle thc milk shall be conveyed through a body oi` water, aided by a corrugated disseminator, and thus be equally distributed beneath the under surface, or bottom, of the milk vat; and `this accomplish by placing below the milk vat a trough, which I partiallyiill with water, said trough having an open recess, running length-` wise, for reception of a series of pipes, through which steam is admitted for the purpose of heating the water to thc desired temperature, and also for a series ofv pipes through which the condensed steam is conveyed from` the steam pipes and trough.; and thus I obtain theV desideratum for cheese-making.

Having described the nature `of vmy invention, I will now describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings, A is an ordinary trough with 4metallic or other lining, B, for containing the water throughj which heat is to be conveyed to the milk vat. -C is a segmental recess running lengthwise of and projecting below the bottom oi' the trough for reception 'of a series of steam pipes, D, which course around in the recess C, and have a steam entrance at d outside the trough. E is another series of pipes parallel and-connected with the steam pipes in saidrecess, and it conveys the condensed steam and water outside the-trough by a pipe, e. F is the corrugated disseminator sustained by rods, f, at the swell of each corrugation, while in the hollow ofeach corrugation there is a circular aperture, f, through which the water condensed by contact with the bottom of the milk vat G descends into the recess C of thctrough A. 'This disseminator is smaller in extent than the interior of the trough, affording the heat inchance to pass all around and between it and the sides of the trough to the bottom'of the milk vat.` G is the milk vat, whichis composedoi` aframe, H, having handles, I'I, and a. metallic or other suitable lining, g, which'forms the interior of. the vat, and is so constructed that while the frame H i restston the trough and makes a steam-tightjoint with it, the bottom g projects downward into the trough and the 'water contained therein to receive its heat for coagulation of Vthe milk in said vat; and Kis'the serrated agitator used bythe operator for the purpose of keeping the curd in motionV and' cutting the same during coagulation.

The operation is as follows: I rst Afill the milk vat G with milk; I next pourthe water into the trough through a pocket on one end of the same; I then admit the steamthrough the pipe d, and when the temperature is about 84 Fahrenheit I apply rennet suiicient to produce coagulation of the milk in from thirty to forty minutes. I now use the agitator Krfor the purpose of agitating and cutting the curd until it is of the proper size; 'and when the curd assumes the temperature of about 98 Fahrenheit, I shut oi the steam and allowthe curd to remain in the vat G until the required amount of lactic acid has developed in the curd, when I draw olf the whey, saltl the curd, and remove the same to the press.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The arrangement and combination of the hot-water trough A with its 4recess4 C, the steam and drip pipes D E, Athe corrugated disseminator F, and milk vat G, with or without the agitator K, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Aset my signature.

` ALANsoN sLAUeHrER.

Witnesses:

A. NEILL, WM. C. LErFEn'rs, 

